All day long I've been rolling around, screeching around corners, my hair wildly flying.....wait, that's not true. Ok. Let's go back to rolling around, maybe sort of fast. And the reason is that today I was just in the zone, you know? It's 7:30pm and after I finish this post and eat something, I'm going back to the studio the start a new piece.
Gourds From Georgia
11x14
This is a piece I finished last fall and put it away, because I just didn't like it. But when I looked at it again yesterday, I realized what was wrong, because now I'm a year smarter. It needed the punch of some more colors, so when I finished I thought it looked pretty good. What do you think?
Autumn Sunlight
8x10
This was one I worked on this week. Do you recognize that bowl? My sister Ellen made it in college, but it lives here now. I love the irregularities in finish.
A good friend told me she had been to a marketing class and was told that an artist needed to start a following by selling very cheap, small paintings until people would accept paying more for larger work. So today I was admiring
Tracy Helgeson's beautiful, softly colored paintings and pastels on her blog, and I tried to do something similar. Mine is only 5x7, I don't know why it looks so huge here. Well, it
doesn't look like Tracy's, but I think it might be ok. And I wanted an excuse to use some of the light molding paste I've had sitting here. Has anyone tried this strategy on
ebay or
etsy?
